Elshishka Milka, Mladenov Aleksandar, Altash Stela, Álvarez-Ortega Sergio, Peña-Santiago Reyes, Peneva Vlada
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Sofia Bulgaria.
Rey Juan Carlos University, Móstoles, Spain Rey Juan Carlos University Móstoles Spain.
Biodivers Data J. 2024 Sep 19;12:e126315. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e126315. eCollection 2024.
The genus is an intriguing free-living dorylaimid nematode taxon. Its representatives display a distinct distributional pattern as they are mainly spread in high altitudinal enclaves of the Northern Hemisphere, being often associated with mosses and cliff vegetation. Although their feeding habits have not been studied with experimental protocols, it is traditionally assumed that they are omnivorous.The genus has not been recently revised; descriptions of many 'old species' (that have been described long ago and have not been reported since their original discovery) are of poor quality, hardly discoverable and do not conform to the nowadays taxonomical standards. Thus, a comprehensive compilation and analysis of their literature data is indispensable to provide new insights into the taxonomy of the genus and to elucidate its evolutionary relationships.
This contribution provides a cyber catalogue of all species, 28 in total. It compiles available information from the key European Research Infrastructures, such as TreatmentBank, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Literature Services (SIBiLS), the Catalogue of Life (CoL), Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) and Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR). Data about their distribution (geographical records and habitats) are incorporated too and all brought together. It is completed with discussion and notes for some species, along with information on species distributions and microhabitats. Here, all available information on species is brought together. This will contribute to a more complete assessment of species diversity and distribution and support further biogeographical and ecological research.Besides, type material Altherr, 1952, deposited in the Museo Cantonale di Storia Naturale di Lugano (Switzerland), is re-examined and the species is considered as . Further, a new species of the genus found in Caucasus, Georgia is described after its morphological and molecular study; also morphological and molecular data for (de Man, 1880) Thorne, 1939, the type species of the genus, collected from Spain are provided.
该属是一种有趣的自由生活的矛线目线虫分类群。其代表物种呈现出独特的分布模式，主要分布在北半球的高海拔飞地，常与苔藓和悬崖植被相关。尽管它们的摄食习性尚未通过实验方案进行研究，但传统上认为它们是杂食性的。该属最近尚未进行修订；许多“旧物种”（很久以前就已被描述，自最初发现后就未再被报道）的描述质量不佳，难以查找且不符合当今的分类标准。因此，对其文献数据进行全面汇编和分析对于深入了解该属的分类学以及阐明其进化关系不可或缺。
本论文提供了该属所有物种（共28种）的网络目录。它汇编了来自关键欧洲研究基础设施的可用信息，如TreatmentBank、瑞士生物信息学文献服务研究所（SIBiLS）、生命目录（CoL）、全球生物多样性信息设施（GBIF）、欧洲核苷酸档案库（ENA）和生物多样性文献库（BLR）。还纳入了关于它们分布（地理记录和栖息地）的数据，并将所有这些信息汇总在一起。论文还对一些物种进行了讨论并给出注释，以及物种分布和微生境的信息。在这里，汇集了关于该属物种的所有可用信息。这将有助于更全面地评估物种多样性和分布，并支持进一步的生物地理学和生态学研究。此外，对存于瑞士卢加诺州立自然历史博物馆的1952年阿尔瑟尔模式标本进行了重新检查，并将该物种认定为某物种。此外，在对格鲁吉亚高加索地区发现的该属一个新物种进行形态学和分子研究后对其进行了描述；还提供了从西班牙采集的该属模式种（1880年德曼命名，1939年索恩修订）的形态学和分子数据。
